Round 5: Tossup 1

This poet warned that “corruption, dark and deep … saps the foundation of a sinking state” in a poem lambasting a piece of Jeffersonian legislation. This poet wishes that “Hope, blossoming in my heart / May look to heaven as I depart” in a poem addressed to a “Fringed (-5[1])Gentian.” (15[1])A poem by this author describes a “quarry-slave at night” and one who (15[1])“lies down to pleasant (15[1])dreams” after declaring (*) “pierce the Barcan wilderness.” That poem (10[1])opens by claiming that Nature has a “healing sympathy” for “him who in the love of [her] holds Communion with her visible forms.” For 10 points, name this author of “Thanatopsis.” ■END■

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